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How to Start a Lay Church, Principle VII: Commit to the Inseparability of Hearing and Doing the Word

Posted on June 27, 2011 by Pastor Foley

“Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them,” says Jesus in Matthew 7:24-25, “will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds … Continue reading →

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How to Start a Lay Church, Principle VI: Train People to Become Living Bibles

Posted on June 24, 2011 by Pastor Foley

Make sure the Bible is inside the Christians in your lay church, not tucked under one arm. Meaning: Materials are for internalizing. They’re not intended as permanent prosthetics. From the very beginning of their faith life and continuing steadily throughout … Continue reading →

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How to Start a Lay Church, Principle III: Train Members to be Generalists, not Specialists

Posted on June 17, 2011 by Pastor Foley

Division of labor is such a fact of life today that it’s hard for us to even imagine what it would look like to be a church where every member is called—and trained hard and weekly—to do every ministry task. … Continue reading →

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